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Östra Torn, roughly translated as "Eastern Tower", is an eastern city-district in the Swedish town of Lund. The Swedish singer Timbuktu Timbuktu ( ; ; Koyra Chiini: ; ) is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. It is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali, having a population of 32,460 in the 2018 census. ... was born and raised in Östra Torn. Lund Neighbourhoods in Sweden {{Skåne-geo-stub ...
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Lund
Lund (, ;"Lund"
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) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Sweden. The town had 94,393 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 130,288 . It is the seat of Lund Municipality, Scania County. The Öresund Region, which includes ''Lund'', is home to more than 4.2 million people. Archeologists date the founding of Lund to around 990, when Scania was part of Denmark. From 1103 it was the seat of the Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lund, and the towering Lund Cathedral, built –1145, still stands at the centre of the town. Denmark ceded the city to Sweden in the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. Lund University, established in 1666, is one of Scandinavia's oldest and largest institutions for education and research.
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Timbuktu (musician)
Jason Michael Bosak DiakitéTimbuktu: ”Jag väntar fortfarande på den ärligaste texten”
DN.SE (21 June 2009). Retrieved 27 April 2012.
(born 11 January 1975 in Lund), known under the stage name Timbuktu, is a Swedish rapper and singer.


Biography

Timbuktu is the son of Madubuko Diakité, a U.S. born Swedish human rights lawyer and academic. Timbuktu started his career in the mid-1990s as part of the rap group Excel before going solo as Timbuktu. The inspiration for the pseudonym comes from the city of Timbuktu in Mali, where his father's family originally comes from. Jason “T ...
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